Rams > Darnold

[JimmyinSD]

Seattle has to be over the moon with what they've gotten from Sam Darnold. Seattle has the best record in the NFC and just beat the team many thought were the best team in the NFL. They're paying Darnold $33M per, which ranks 18th among QBs.

i didnt actually watch the game,  but what I saw from the highlights it wasnt so much Seattle beating the Rams, it was more like the Rams lost to Seattle.  That backwards pass hitting the defender in the head and casually picked up by an offensive player for the conversion just screams case keenum's horseshoe.

[purplefaithful]

I think 3 times the Rams were in the red zone and had to settle for field goals that game...But yah, I suspect Darnold has delivered on the high end of their expectations Yr1 with the team.

One of those feel good win/wins for player and team - especially if you like the Seahawks.

[comet52]

Yeah, me neither. Uncle Sammy still makes Uncle Sammy mistakes. He's a beautiful thrower of the pigskin, but I still maintain he's a bed wetter in aggregate big moments.

He still can't process what's in front of him at NFL speed.  That's never changed and it's why he throws so many bad balls at bad times.  It's unlikely he ever takes a team past the early rounds of the playoffs.  

Give him credit for stepping up from years of awful to being serviceable and landing himself a nice contract, but the big pressure moments mostly look the same to me.  He did do a nice job in the comeback but I think the momentum from the punt return td mostly carried the team to an improbable comeback.  Up until then the Rams were outclassing them everywhere but once that boulder got rolling downhill they couldn't seem to stop it.

[supafreak84]

I mean good for Darnold, but that game turned on the Shaheed punt return. Prior to that Darnold had thrown 6 INT's in seven quarters of football against the Rams. He was abysmal. I'd take the Rams all day long in any kind of playoff rematch because I simply don't trust Darnold to play winning football. I said when they signed him that he'd be the reason their season came up short and I'll stick by that